Yes. He demeans the legitimate media by calling them "fake news." Yet when an independent Fact Check is done, it's actually Trump that's spouting the fake news, not the media.

He's also demeaning our offices of law and order. With the intent of replacing the incumbents with his own people. We see this big time as he besmirches the FBI and attempts to replace its leadership with his own followers.

Finally he's prostituting the military by offering them more money and newer and bigger weapon systems in return for their loyalty. Weapons systems that even the military say they don't need.

The only ones I see threatening the free press is the corporate media like cnn, msnbc and corporate tech monopolies oh yea and democrats and establishment republicans. leftists hate the free press that's why they want to deplatform and basically erase anyone who's actual real media aka alternative media off the internet, you know like Alex Jones. if leftists cared about the free press they wouldn't be praising corporate censorship. but that won't get cnn more views lmao